Announcements
Leo Wan's article on the cover of CMBE
A recent article from Leo Wan's group was promoted to the cover of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE), a journal affiliated with BMES. The title of the article is "Effects of Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Proteins on the Chirality of Brain Endothelial Cells" and the authors are Haokang Zhang, Jie Fan, Zhen Zhao, Chunyu Wang and Leo Q. Wan.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12195-021-00669-w
and the abstract is shown below:
Pingkun Yan receives NSF CAREER award
Pingkun Yan is receiving an award by the National Science Foundation for his proposal "CAREER: Systematic Mitigation of Deep Learning Adversaries in Medical Imaging". This is a five year award and is considered NSF's flagship award for new investigators. A detailed description of the summary of the proposed work can be found below.
About the NSF CAREER award:
David Corr promoted to Professor
The Rensselaer Board of Trustees has approved David Corr's promotion to the rank of Professor. David Corr joined Rensselaer’s Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2006 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2012. David’s research is in the area of soft tissue engineering and mechanics with applications in orthopaedic soft tissues (e.g., tendon, ligament, skeletal muscle), and cell-based biofabrication to engineer stem cell microenvironments and tumor models.
Pingkun Yan publishes in Nature Communications
An article by Pingkun Yan's group on "Deep learning predicts cardiovascular disease risks from lung cancer screening low dose computed tomography" has been published in Nature Communications. The paper is in collaboration with Dr. Mannudeep Kalra from Massachusetts General Hospital and Ge Wang at Rensselaer BME.
Congratulations to all BME graduates!
The department congratulates the graduates of the class of 2021 who will be receiving their degrees during commencement on Saturday, May 22. There is usually a departmental graduation ceremony held the day before graduation, however, due to restrictions on campus gatherings, the department will instead host a virtual reception on Friday, May 21, from noon-1pm:
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=1ded6974-6361-4d2f-a1a9-fac3e15e8aa1
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were announced today and Carlos Marquez, an undergraduate student in the BME department has been selected as a winner of the NSF fellowship.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Leo Wan named Fellow of American Heart Association
Leo Wan has been elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA). The membership level of Fellow is the highest one awarded by AHA and recognized members for their outstanding engineering achievements.
Deepak Vashishth's article in eLife
An article by Deepak Vashishth's group on "The Role of Extracellular Matrix Phosphorylation on Energy Dissipation in Bone" has been accepted for publication in eLife. The paper is the result of an international collaboration with authors from McGill (Canada), University of Southampton (UK), University of Patras (Greece), Aarhus University (Denmark) and Vienna University of Technology (Austria). This work launches a new field in bone research as it is shown for the first time and explored mechanistically, how phosphorylation, an enzymatic modification, in bone proteins enhances bo